arequipa to lima

arequipa is a beautiful city. we fell in love with it right away. emily and i did the colca canyon trek. i´m happy to say we were in 3rd and 4th place the whole trek. rgiht behind the mexican triathelete and the swiss guy. behind me was the australian guy who was carrying his wife´s bag plus his own. that sucks. then the swiss girl, then the australian lady, and last the sunburnt girl from croatia.of course it´s not a competition and we have the advantage of being acclimatized and used to treking :) we felt good about ourselves. this trek was nothing compared to the one we did in cuzco. it was sooooo much easier. the people on the trek weren´t as cool as the last one either but we still had a good time. we got to stay in a hostel in the canyon. our room had those mud brick walls. it was pretty cool. it also had a solar shower with really hot water. hot showers are hard to come by in this country. on the second day of the trek we got to go swimming and then after had to hike up the canyon for 3 hours in the sun. it was pretty rough. last night we caught a plan ¨air taca¨ to Lima. we are staying in central lima which the guide book says to avoid but we love it. there is so much more to do here then there was in the district of barranca. today we shopped for ourselves. i got a bunch of things. so cheap.